Add your comments to this post. Let us know what you think about Tommy’s connected pedagogy, and help us look into the future of Youth Voices. http://youthvoices.net. This episode might be a good moment for us to connect to old friends who want to work with us at Youth Voices again or meet new people as well.

21:20Valerie Burton @MsBisOnline: I teach English/Language Arts in New Orleans

21:20Valerie Burton @MsBisOnline: Oh nooo. You guys try again

21:21Jeremy Hyler: I teach 7th/8th grade language arts in a rural school in central Michigan

21:21unnamed: Hi I provide technology support to teachers and students in the Elk Grove School District (south Sacramento, CA)

21:22Justin Schwamm: Are we still waiting for the Hangout on Air to start? I haven't been booted off, but no video or audio.

21:22Chris Sloan: @Justin. Click the play button on the video screen above

21:23Chris Sloan: By the way, it's working for me, and I'm using safari

21:23Justin Schwamm: There we go! Nothing over here, but the G+ stream is working fine.

21:26Valerie Burton @MsBisOnline: Yeah Chris

21:28Gail Desler: I love the opportunity for students to focus on news.

21:29Valerie Burton @MsBisOnline: I agree Gail. Part of the dreaded Common Core - the integration of informational text

21:29Jeremy Hyler: Students focusing on informational text or authentic texts is crucial

21:29Justin Schwamm: Love the way this deepens the idea of "research!"

21:29Valerie Burton @MsBisOnline: It is personal and that makes it that much more powerfurl

21:30Jeremy Hyler: I agree Justin, I struggle how to appropriately have students do research!

21:30Gail Desler: @Valerie - one more good point about CCSS

21:31Justin Schwamm: It can be very difficult, Jeremy. Hard to strike a good balance between "research for its own sake" and "research that's personally meaningful."

21:32Valerie Burton @MsBisOnline: Tommy's video project is great

21:32Jeremy Hyler: Very good thought Justin

21:32Valerie Burton @MsBisOnline: Whoa Paul!! There is an app for that

21:33Gail Desler: Whoohoo...an app for YouthVoices!

21:33Justin Schwamm: @Jeremy - Thanks! It's even more of a challenge for my Latin students, as I'm sure you can imagine :)

21:33Jeremy Hyler: Oh man, what a struggle you must have

21:34Peggy George: not seeing the video yet :-) but seeing and hearing the stream fine

21:34Justin Schwamm: Well, the neat thing about Latin and the Romans is that everything IS connected quite profoundly to "us." As soon as students discover that, they get fascinated - no problems at all. Until then, yes, it's a struggle.

21:35Valerie Burton @MsBisOnline: Can you guys see the video too?

21:36Peggy George: no

21:36Peggy George: can you give us the url?

21:36Valerie Burton @MsBisOnline: let me see

21:37Peggy George: is it a youtube video?

21:37Valerie Burton @MsBisOnline: No. on you tube

21:37Valerie Burton @MsBisOnline: Shared it on my Google + but we are back now

21:49Peggy George: but free usually means advertising so that's the tradeoff

21:49Jeremy Hyler: ahh yes!

21:49Peggy George: it's more challenging to create shorter recordings because you really have to decide what's important!

21:50Peggy George: we found that with the K12 Online video recordings--originally they were one hour long and now they are 20 mins and you have to do a lot of editing to keep it that limit but much better for the viewer

21:51Peggy George: what an awesome teacher!! I would love to have had a teacher like Tommy when I was in HS!!!

21:51Peggy George: I might remember some of it now! :-)

21:52Peggy George: WOW! Book Drum sounds incredible!

21:52Valerie Burton @MsBisOnline: BookMe too

21:52Valerie Burton @MsBisOnline: Me too

21:52Jeremy Hyler: Checking out Book Drum now

21:53Valerie Burton @MsBisOnline: Tommy is inspiring me to do lots of things. Jeremy I am checking it out too

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